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Sex workers hit by hard times A price list for sexual services that was recently posted around town was a call for dignity and empowerment for sex trade workers, according to its author, a transsexual sex worker named Jackie Reve. >> Reve, a columnist for Fugues and head of CATSU (Centre d'action des travailleurs/euses unis/es), says she conceived of the flyer because of the price deflation of sexual services she has witnessed in Montreal as the economy turned bad. "There are more students going into the business, more people abandoning the system who are making their livings as prostitutes. Prices have gone down or haven't changed since the '60s," she says. >> Reve's flyer is an attempt to instil a system of adequate pricing in the profession and, by doing so, encourage a sense of self-value in the workers of this maligned profession: "I want Montreal to be the first city in the world where prostitutes are empowered. I want to be able to go up to a bank manager at a party, and have him ask me, 'What do you do for a living?' and then be able to have a nice conversation about our jobs." --Jacquie Charlton
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